MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.
RABIES IN COLONY
Rules For Prevention
And Treatment.
MEDICINE SUPPLIED FREE
AT G. C. H.
A guide, in the form of an eight- page pamphlet, to the prevention and treatment of rabies in Hong Kong, has been issued. The publication was drawn up by the. Colonial Veterinary Surgeon collaboration with the Govern ment Bacteriologist, and published under the auspices of the Sanitary Board.
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Rabies, the guide states, is infectious disease, due to a specifie virus, which affects members of the canine family principally, ie, dog. wolf, fox, jackal, etc.. but which
be transmitted may
to other animals, eg. cats. sheep, goals, awine, etc., and to man.
The following roles are laid down for treatment of persons who have been hitten by a 'dog :-- A person bitten should go unee to the nearest Government Hospital and ask for treatment.
He should take the treatment which the doctor prescribes untilj
Heartless "Queen"
Earonen de Wagner The lowest exploit of the self-styled "Queen of the Galapagos." Baron. * Elvinen Bousquet De Wagner, w to turn adrift a honeymoon couple and three sailors, who had survived a shipwreck near Flore ane Island, in an open boat without water or food. They were later picked up by the clipper "Fortur and brought to Guayaquil. Erunde,
the doctor dicides that he has had ADMIRAL SAILS FOR
SOUTH TO-MORROW.
enough, or that he many stop.
The treatment which he will get will absolutely prevent him from bite taking the disease from the
of a ma dog. The treatment is perfectly harmless and will not make the patient sirk. No person who has ever taken the treatment in Hong Kong har
taken disease as a result of it.
over
The medicine is supplied free, Chinese or Eastern medicine useless for rabies.
Everyone who takes rabies certain to die.
Treatment of a Dog.
If a dog bites any person. with
Will Transfer Flag In Singapore.
U.S. GUNBOAT FULTON ARRIVES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CORRESPONDENCE.
TAPIOCA IN THE NEW TERRITORIES
[To the Editor “China: Mail"")
To-day's Short Story.
THE THING IN THE
UPPER ROOM
By Arthur Morrison.
Sir-From the handbook the door, which stood black the matter-and. Indeed, his end
SHADOW hung ever over memory had something to do with
blished by the New Territories
Agricultural Association for the in the depth of its arched recess, was sinister enough; but long be- show held on Saturday and can-like an unfathomable eye under a fore his time the room had atcod He, greatly tinued on Sunday, the exhibits frowning brow. The landing was shunned and empty. were classified under 116 different wide and. panelled, and a heavy daring, had taken no more heed of beads. The entries, of course, con- rall, supported by a carved balis- the common terror of the room than 'siderably exceeded that number trade, stretched away in alter to use it to bis advantage in abating which goes to show that, from the nate slopes and levels down. the the rent; and he had shot himself. point of exhibits themselves, the dark staircase; past other doors, a little later, while the police were Show was a conspicuous success, and so to the courtyard and the beating.at his door to arrest him on For several years now I have street. The other doors were a charge of murder. As I have been acting as one of the judges of dark also; but it was with a dif- said, his fate may have added to the place, the poultry section. A fact which ference. That top landing was general aversion from the I desire to bring to the notice of lightest of all, because of the sky, though it had in no way originated farmers in particular, and rest- light; and perhaps it was largely it; and now ten years had passed,{ dents of Hong Kong In general, has by reason of contrast that its and mure, since his few articles of nothing, however, to do with the one doorway gloomed so black furniture had been carried poultry section; it is one that con-and forbidding.
'and sold; and nothing had been car cerns the agricultural section. The doors below opened and shut, ried in to replace them.
The U.S.S. Fulton, Gunbost, rived from Pagoda Anchorage this morning and fired salutes of 21 and office and have forwarded it to
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
nway
To-morrow's story will be "Pop Bigelow's Blessing," by Norman Matson.
I wish to call the attention of the slammed, stood ajar, Men and organisers of the Show that a very women passed in and out, with talk! When one is 25, healthy, hungry important root is grown in the and human sounds-sometimes even and poor, one is less likely to be New Territories. It was not class-with laughter or a snatch of song: "frightened from a cheap lodging by fied and, therefore, not exhibited but the door on the top landing re- mere headshakings than might be the tapioca. at the last Show. It is the root of mained shut and silent through expected in other circumstances. Tapioca, as is gen-weeks and months. Far, in truth. Attwater was 25, commonly healthy, {erally known, forms a vary impor- the logement had an ill name, and often hungry, and always poor.
tant article of the agricultural in-had been untenanted for years. | dustry of Singapore and the Feder-Long even before the last tenant had inted Malay States. It is success-occupied it, the room had been re- fully grown in the New Territories gurded with fear and aversion, and (and, incidentally, I may inform the end of that last tenant had in readers of your esteemed paper, no way lightened the gloom that that I have dug up the root in the hung, about the place. · New Territories and have brought| The house was so old that its ar-it Kowloon and shown it to friends, weather-washed face may well have This morning 1 brought with looked down on the blood-shed of me a piece of the root to the St. Bartholomew's, and the haunted
He came to live in Paris because, alroom may even have earned ita ill from his remembrance of his stu- 17 guns respectively to the Colony prominent member of the Agricul- name on that same day of death.
dent days, he believed he could live and Commander-in-Chief, Admiral tural Association Committee in the But Paris is a city of cruel his cheaper there than in London; while Sir Frederick Charles Drayer, hope that he might bring to the tory, and since the old mansion rose notice of the Committee that such proud and new, the hotel of sɔmé K.C.B., C.B.E., respectively. en some very obvious reason for The forts replied on behalf of theja root can be easily grown in the powerful noble, almost any year of not sell fewer pictures, slace he had doing so, that dog should be con- Colony while H.MS. Kent replied New Territories, and if the farmers the centuries might have seen the ever yet sold one. sidered as
It was the concierge of a neigh- are encouraged to plant it exten-blot fall or that upper room that Case of suspected for the Admiral. rabies until such time the H.M.S. Kent, flying the flag of sively, tapioca might be developed had left it a place of loathing and bouring house who showed Attwater
Commander-in-Chief, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon states the
accom.into a new industry of value for the shadows. The occasion was long the room. The house of the room forgotten, but the fact remained; itself maintained no such func that he considers that the dog was panied by the Suffolk, the Aircraft New Territories.
the incapable of
the Carrier Eagle and transmitting
I have tried to find out the Chin- whether or not some horror of the tionary, though its main door stood Destroyer ¿Tenders Veteran and Wren disease at the time of biting.
will ese name for tapioca. It is various-anción regime or some enormity of open day and night. The man said bitten. anyone leave Hong Kong to-morrow morn-ly stated in different villages. From the Terror was enacted in that room little, but his surprise at Attwater's the person hitten ing for Singapore on their annual enquiries I find that it is more com- was no longer to be discovered; but application was plain to see. Mon-
English? Įmonly known as muk shue, Le,, wood nobody would live there, nor stay aleur was
Tho should take ull possible slepa to Southern cruise.
the Ad- potatoe
beyond that gloomy door one second logement was convenient, though Identify the dog and report the The Kent will enter
As to the nutritive value, there longer than he, could help.
high, and probably now a little dirty, facts immediately to the nearest miralty floating dock on arrival at Police Station.
Singapore. On January 31 the Ad- can be no question of its worth, and It might be supposed that the fate since it had not been occupied re- miral will transfer his flag to the it remains to be seen to what ex-of the solitary tenant within living cently. Rables In The Dog. There are two recognised forms Cruiser Suffolk, when the Kent will tent tapioca can be made an article of the disease, furlaus rabies and proceed to Penang to await the ar-of food in Hong Kong if it is mar has keled in the Colony at a cheap price dumb rabies, but there are many rival of the Cornwall, which
further and its value widely expounded. 1 cases which lie between the two and, been re-commissioned for exhibit some of the characteristics service on the China Station, after cannot see why it should not of each. Each form of the which she will continue her vayuge done. disease exhibits three stages, which to the United Kingdom.
The person
yho may see
are outlined fully in the pamphlet
FIRE ALARMS LAST NIGHT.
Lorry Tank Ablaze At Yaumati.
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In 1926.
The Italian "ace", Count Maris
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Thanking you for affording me facility for disseminating the above Information in the Colony,
J. A. SELAVISA ÁLVES.
PICKPOCKET GOES TO GAOL.
Bystander Watches Theft Committed.
NON-REGISTRATION OF MUI-TSAI.
Father's Evidence Of "Relationship."
*sai.
WOMAN FINED $100,
it was quite certain that he would
Yes.
Plainly, the man felt it to be no business of his to enlighten an un- auspecting foreigner as to the repu- tation of the place; and if he could Let it there would be some mali gratification from the landlord. though, at such a rent, of course a very small one indeed.
But Attwater was better inform- ed than the concierge supposed. He had heard the tale of the haunted room, vaguely and incoherently, it Chan Sung, & married woman is true, from the little old engraver was charged on remand, before of watches on the floor below, by Mr. Balfour, at the Central-Magia-whom he had been directed to the
racy this morning, with baving in
The old man had been concierge. her custody an unregistered mui-voluble and friendly, and reported that the room had a good light, fac-| Defendant, who declared the girl ing north-east-Indeed, a much bet- de Bernardi, who was the winner of Tse Chau, unemployed, was sen- o be a relative, called as a witter light than he, engraver of the 1926 Schneider Trophy race, tenced to six months' hard labour less the father of the girl, one watches, enjoyed on the floor below. passed through Hong Kong with by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-Chan Pui, a silk-worm Cruder, who So much so that, considering this]
Chang Hench-liang A motor lorry caught fire outside Marshal
ontral Magistracy this morning, for stated that the defendant was “advantage and the much lower rent,] in 'distant aunt" of his; but further he himself would have taken the the "Shell" petrol filling station op-board the Conte Verde. He is on stealing $1.45 from LI Ching
questions elicited the fact that the room long ago, except well, except posite the Po Hing Theatre, Yau- his way to Nanking at the invita-Kom U Street.
Evidence as given by a bystander woman was merely the aunt of one for other things.. Monsieur was e mati, last night at about 7 o'clock, tion of the Young Marshal, to take
the theft committed, of his clausmen.............
stranger, and perhaps had no fear while taking on a supply of petrol. up a position as instructor to Chin- who
though the complainant was Dot The Magistrate considered the to inhabit a haunted chamber; but It is stated that the fire was ese aviators. caused by a Chinese coolie smoking | The Count is taking two Italian aware that that his pocket had been rage proved and imposed a fine of that was its reputation, as every-
CELLULOID DOLL TURNS OUT ENGINES
a cigarette near the petrol tank of machines with him.
the lorry, Chemical fire extin- guishers and sand were brought into action and the flames were ex- tinguished before much damage badį been done. Fire engines from Mongkok and Kowloon also quickly arrived, but were not required.
A Hong Kong Alarm, The Hong Kong Brigade turned; out in answer to call from 20 First Street, second floor, at 11.40 p.m. yesterday, but on arrival found that it was only a celluloid doll which had caught fire, causing a great deal, ‚of smoke, and frightening the in-
mates of the house,
WINDJAMMER'S RECORD
(Continued from Page 13
It is also pointed out that there
in a good likelihood of a surplus of over a million gallons of milk, a month in Britain next spring and that the best use to which" thin could be put would be the manufac“ ture of butter or cheese,
Another point which has to be Counsidered in the agreement with Denmark and other. Scandinavian countries who are allowed to sell butter and pork in Britain because they take British coal and manufac- turid goods in emhange --Beuter-1.
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picked. The money 'was recovered. $100.
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body in the quartter knew it would! be a “misfortune, however, to a stranger to take the room without suspicion, and to undergo unexpect-| ed experiences, a
Here, however, the old man check- ed himself, possibly reflecting that too much information to inquirers] after the upper room might offend his landlord. He hinted as much, in fact, hoping that his friendly warning would not be allowed to travel further, As to the precise nature of the disagreeable marilfes tations in the room, who could say? Perhaps there were really nons af all People said. this and that, Certainly, the place had been un- tenanted for many years, and he would not like to stay in it himself, But it might be the good fortune [of monsieur to break the spall; and if monklour, was resolved to defy the revenant, he wished, monsieur, the highest success and happiness,
Bo much for the engraver of watches; and now the cometerse of the neighbouring house led the way up the stately old panelled staircase, swinging his keys in his hand,; and halled at last before the dark door
in the frowning, rebesa. He turned the key with some difficul
lopen the door," and stood hack
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